← Economics, Policy & Strategy Division

Policy Analysis & Regulation Center

Evaluates energy and environmental policies, regulations, and governance frameworks for sustainable resource management, providing evidence-based policy recommendations and regulatory impact analysis on topics like carbon pricing and subsidy reform.

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Research Fields 15

Cap-and-Trade & Emissions Trading Design

🏭 Cap-and-Trade & Emissions Trading Design

Cap-and-trade is an environmental policy instrument in which a regulator sets a total ceil…

Regulatory Impact Assessment & the Policy Analysis Discipline

📝 Regulatory Impact Assessment & the Policy Analysis Discipline

Regulatory impact assessment (RIA) is the institutionalised practice of analysing a propos…

International Climate Agreements & Global Environmental Governance

🌐 International Climate Agreements & Global Environmental Governance

International climate agreement studies analyse how sovereign states — with no world gover…

Technological Risk Regulation & Environmental Agency Design

🛡️ Technological Risk Regulation & Environmental Agency Design

Technological risk regulation studies how public institutions decide which risks from chem…

Distributive Justice & Just Transition Economics

⚖️ Distributive Justice & Just Transition Economics

Distributive justice in economics asks how the gains and losses of social arrangements — g…

Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis

🎚️ Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis

Multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) is the family of methods for choosing, ranking or …

Agent-Based Modeling & Strategic Interaction in Policy

🎮 Agent-Based Modeling & Strategic Interaction in Policy

Agent-based modeling simulates a social system from the bottom up: individual agents with …

Policy Sciences & Stakeholder Analysis Foundations

🏛️ Policy Sciences & Stakeholder Analysis Foundations

The policy sciences are the interdisciplinary study of the policy process — how problems r…

Governance of the Commons & Institutional Analysis

🤝 Governance of the Commons & Institutional Analysis

Commons governance studies how communities use shared, subtractable resources — fisheries,…

Computer-Mediated Delphi & Structured Policy Consultation

💬 Computer-Mediated Delphi & Structured Policy Consultation

Computer-mediated Delphi is the adaptation of structured expert consultation to networked …

Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Public Expenditure

📐 Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Public Expenditure

Cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) compares the cost of achieving a fixed, physically defin…

Energy Subsidy Reform & Market Liberalization Policy

⛽ Energy Subsidy Reform & Market Liberalization Policy

Energy subsidy reform studies the economics and politics of withdrawing price support — fo…

Environmental Fiscal Policy & Carbon Tax Design

🧾 Environmental Fiscal Policy & Carbon Tax Design

Environmental fiscal policy designs taxes and related budgetary instruments so that the fi…

Public Choice, Regulatory Capture & the Economics of Regulation

🎪 Public Choice, Regulatory Capture & the Economics of Regulation

The economics of regulation, in its public-choice form, treats regulation not as a benevol…

International Negotiation & Treaty Design

🕊️ International Negotiation & Treaty Design

International negotiation analysis studies how states and other parties bargain in the abs…